THE STEUBEN COUNTY LAND BRIEF
Land in the
Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau setting.
Steuben County has 1,390.5 square miles of land in New York. 3 mapped landscape regions meet across Steuben County: Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau, Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges, Glaciated Allegheny Hills.
Rolling hills, broad valleys and low mountains are mantled by glacial deposits. Sandstone, shale and siltstone underlie a mix of open land and woodland across the northern plateau.
Regional context: Northern Allegheny Plateau ↗ · Regional mapping across the county footprint
Where the landscape changes
Steuben County intersects 3 mapped regional units. The largest mapped shares are:
- Glaciated Low Allegheny Plateau82.2%
- Finger Lakes Uplands and Gorges13.5%
- Glaciated Allegheny Hills4.3%
Finding your parcel within Steuben County
The atlas lists 52 cities, towns, townships, and Census communities associated with Steuben County, including Bath, Troupsburg, Howard. The list includes overlapping geography types and does not divide the county into exclusive service areas.
Steuben County by land and water
The Census records 13.5 square miles of water within Steuben County, or 1% of its total area. That share is close to Steuben County’s 1%. This is geographic context; waterfront status and usable land must be checked at the parcel.
For scale, Steuben County has 29.8 times the land area of nearby Cameron town (46.7 square miles). These areas describe boundaries, not comparable property prices.
The Census boundary meets Allegany County, Chemung County, Livingston County, Ontario County, Schuyler County, Yates County within New York. A tract near one of these lines should be matched to the county identifier on its own records.

